BIOGRAPHY: Joseph Green BROWN, Cambria County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Lynne Canterbury and Diann Olsen. Portions of this book were transcribed by Clark Creery, Martha Humenik, Betty Mirovich and Sharon Ringler. USGENWEB ARCHIVES (tm) NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information are included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ ____________________________________________________________ From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 49 ____________________________________________________________ JOSEPH GREEN BROWN, deceased, son of Morganza Brown, whose sketch appears above, was born in Johnstown, December 17, 1849. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and then learned the trade of a cabinetmaker, but preferring mechanical pursuits as an avocation, he entered the pattern department of the Cambria Iron company, where he soon developed consideral skill, and where he was continuously engaged up to the time of his death, which occurred on August 26, 1895, as assistant foreman under Mr. Evan Lewis.